Prison is a crash course in the darker side of life. Few survive it without becoming a different person: more cynical, jaded, fearful, angry. Its hard to trust again, hard to believe, easy to hate a system that destroyed your life behind the pompous pretense of saving you from yourself, for your own good.

Capitalism is the only economic system compatible with free individuals

For now realize that you can change anything you want, but you can't change everything you want.

Whenever something good happens, write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger how much happier we would all be.

Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

You're asking the government to control individual morality. This is a government that can't buy a toilet seat for under $600.